Yes, you can clone it powered on OR powered off.
Can you clone a VM while it is powered on?
Cloning with power off is faster
Which is faster?
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Right-click the VM, and click Clone.
Select clone to Virtual Machine (The VM can be powered on or off)
For Name and Location, give your new VM a name, and select the inventory location
Select the host vApp, or ressource pool in which you want to run the cloned VM
In Storage, select the datastore that you will use for the VM
In clone options, you can choose to customize the operating system based
on a standard that you have created, or choose not to customize
Review your settings and hit finished
What are the steps to cloning a VM?
Right click
Click edit Settings
How to configure a clone?
The VM name - (Display name)
(Still further down, the VM's
configuration file and working location are listed. The names of these files will start
with the display name. The last setting is that of the OS on the VM. Based on this
setting, the system updates the VM with the latest drivers and VMware Tools. This
setting should always match the actual OS that starts when you power on your VM.)
Which general option parameter can be changed while the VM is powered on?
This option controls the behavior of a remote connection or connections to the
VM
What does VMware Remote Console Options do?
You can configure the VM to lock the guest OS when the last
remote user disconnects (remember that this is a server)
What is the first VMware Remote Console Option?
You can limit the number of simultaneous connections to the VM
What is a second VMware Remote Console Option?
- Power Operations
■ Run VMware Tools Scripts
■ Tools Upgrades
■ Time
What the four categories of VMware Tools?
The default setting of Power Operations provides for a graceful shutdown of the guest OS, suspend, and restart guest
The Run VMware Tools Scripts controls when the scripts are
run
(These are optional scripts installed in a VM along with VMware Tools that
do things like answer the annoying Windows Server 2008 "Why are you shutting
down?" question)
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